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China Arnold (born March 29, 1980, in Dayton, Ohio)〔("Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Offender Page ) 3 March 2010〕 is an American convicted murderer. ==Case== Arnold, who had been convicted of abduction in 2000 and forgery in 2002,〔("Mother arraigned in baby's microwave death" The Associated Press via MSNBC.com ) 3 March 2010〕 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on 8 September 2008 for killing her 28-day-old daughter, Paris. The infant was placed in a microwave oven for what analysts suspect was longer than 2 minutes and died shortly after removal. Death occurred because her internal temperature became critical. In the words of medical examiner, Dr. Marcella Fierro, "she was cooked."〔("Mother Jailed Over Microwave Baby" ''news.sky.com'' )〕〔(Cops Suspect Microwave Was Murder Weapon ) CBS News〕 At the time, Arnold lived with her children and her boyfriend, Terrell Talley, in a housing complex. Prosecutors said that she placed Paris into the microwave after an argument with Talley over the baby's paternity; she told investigators that she was intoxicated. Arnold took Paris to the hospital the next day, where she died of her injuries.〔("Drunken mom microwaved one-month-old baby" ''New York Daily News'' ) 3 March 2010〕 Arnold was arrested initially, then released due to lack of evidence. She was re-arrested in November 2006.〔("Cops Suspect Microwave Was Murder Weapon" ''cbsnews.com'' Nov. 28, 2006 )〕 Shortly after Arnold's first trial began, Talley told the ''Dayton Daily News'' that his son told him that he pulled the baby's lifeless body out of the microwave after a neighbor's boy had put her in there;〔("DDN: New Witness Tells Father Who Put Child In Microwave" ''WHIOTV.com'' ) 3 March 2010〕 the claim resulted in a mistrial.〔("China Arnold Stands Trial Again in Microwave Baby Death Case" ''Dayton Daily News'' ) 3 March 2010〕 However, at the second trial, the mother of the boy in question established that he was not at the housing complex when Paris died, and Arnold was convicted of aggravated murder.〔(Life for microwave baby killer ) BBC, September 9, 2008〕 On 5 November 2010, the Second District Court of Appeals reversed Arnold's conviction, citing misconduct by prosecutors and that the court erred by not allowing material witnesses to testify in Arnold's defense.〔("Appeals Court Grants New Trial for China Arnold" ''WDTN'' ) 14 May 2011〕 On 13 May 2011, a jury found Arnold guilty of aggravated murder. Her attorney had argued that the evidence pointed as much to Talley as it did Arnold, to no avail.〔("Jury Convicts Ohio Mom in Baby's Microwave Death" ''The Associated Press via Yahoo!'' ) 14 May 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「China P. Arnold」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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